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1. Spelling Bee Grid
2. Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints
3. Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints
4. Extra Letter Hints (Incrementally Revealing) 🤯
5. Today's Complete Solution
6. Answer Definitions

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Spelling Bee Grid

The following table shows the standard Spelling Bee summary grid, which lists word lengths across the top and letters down the left-hand side. The cell where the word lengths and letters intersect displays the number of words in today's puzzle with the corresponding first letter and word length.

Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints

The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding two letters.

Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints

The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding three letters.

Extra Letter Hints (Incrementally Revealing)

The table below lists all of the solutions to today's puzzle, but they're concealed. You can click the plus button (+) to reveal additional letters, one-by-one.

Concealed definitions are provided as additional clues. You can toggle concealment of the definitions by clicking on the concealer bar or the text that appears when the definition is visible.

Pangrams are marked with a dagger symbol (^†).

Today's Complete Solution

The words that follow are a complete listing of all acceptable words in today's New York Time Spelling Bee puzzle.

Next to the answer word you'll see the two-letter reference (2L Ref) in parentheses. We added that 2L Ref for easier translation of the spoiler-avoidant language you see on the Spelling Bee Forum and Twitter. The 2L Ref signifies a word's two start letters followed by the total number of letters in the word.

• biathlete^†  (BI9)
• habitable^†  (HA9)
• hittable^†  (HI8)
• athlete  (AT7)
• baht  (BA4)
• bath  (BA4)
• bathe  (BA5)
• blah  (BL4)
• blithe  (BL6)
• habit  (HA5)
• habitat  (HA7)
• hail  (HA4)
• halal  (HA5)
• hale  (HA4)
• halite  (HA6)
• hall  (HA4)
• halt  (HA4)
• hate  (HA4)
• hateable  (HA8)
• hath  (HA4)
• hatha  (HA5)
• heal  (HE4)
• healable  (HE8)
• health  (HE6)
• heat  (HE4)
• heatable  (HE8)
• heath  (HE5)
• heel  (HE4)
• hell  (HE4)
• hiatal  (HI6)
• hill  (HI4)
• hilt  (HI4)
• lath  (LA4)
• lathe  (LA5)
• lethal  (LE6)
• lithe  (LI5)
• teeth  (TE5)
• teethe  (TE6)
• telehealth  (TE10)
• that  (TH4)
• thee  (TH4)
• theta  (TH5)
• tilth  (TI5)
• tithe  (TI5)

Answer Definitions

• biathlete^† (noun): An athlete who competes in the biathlon.
• habitable^† (adjective): Safe and comfortable, where humans, or other animals, can live; fit for habitation.
• hittable^† (adjective): Able to be hit; fit to be hit
• athlete (noun): A participant in a group of sporting activities which includes track and field, road running, cross country running and racewalking.
• baht (noun): The official currency of Thailand, equal to 100 satang.
• bath (noun): A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
• bathe (verb): To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath.
• blah (noun): Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.
• blithe (adjective): Casually careless or indifferent; showing a lack of concern.
• habit (noun): An action performed on a regular basis.
• habitat (noun): Conditions suitable for an organism or population of organisms to live.
• hail (noun): Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
• halal (adjective): Permissible, according to Muslim religious customs, to have or do.
• hale (adjective): Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
• halite (noun): Native salt; sodium chloride NaCl as a mineral; rock salt.
• hall (noun): A corridor; a hallway.
• halt (verb): To limp; move with a limping gait.
• hate (noun): An object of hatred.
• hateable (adjective): Alternative form of hatable
• hath (verb): third-person singular simple present indicative form of have
• hatha (noun): The fundamental form of yoga that focuses on asanas
• heal (verb): To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
• healable (adjective): Receptive to treatment or cure.
• health (noun): The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
• heat (noun): Thermal energy.
• heatable (adjective): Capable of being heated.
• heath (noun): A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
• heel (noun): The rear part of the foot, where it joins the leg.
• hell (proper noun): A place of torment where some or all sinners and evil spirits are believed to go after death.
• hiatal (adjective): Relating to a hiatus.
• hill (noun): An elevated landmass smaller than a mountain.
• hilt (noun): The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.
• lath (noun): A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.
• lathe (verb): To invite; bid; ask.
• lethal (adjective): Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.
• lithe (verb): To go.
• teeth (noun): plural of tooth
• teethe (verb): To grow teeth.
• telehealth (noun): Healthcare facilitated by telecommunication technology, typically allowing a doctor or other healthcare professional to interact with a patient visually and audibly.
• that (conjunction): Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
• thee (pronoun): Objective and reflexive case of thou.
• theta (noun): The eighth letter of the Modern Greek alphabet, ninth in Old Greek: Θ, θ.
• tilth (noun): Agricultural labour; husbandry.
• tithe (noun): A tenth.